Quotes About Life

Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.

Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don't leave any unlived life behind.

Where I am, death is not; where death is, I am not.

As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind.

I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome, Pandora's box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.

The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.

If we look at life in its small details, how ridiculous it all seems. It is like a drop of water seen through a microscope, a single drop teeming with protozoa. How we laugh as they bustle about so eagerly and struggle with one another. Whether here, or in the little span of human life, this terrible activity produces a comic effect.

Life is like carrying a message from the child you were to the old man you'll become, without losing it along the way.

If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.

If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?

To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures who people the tree of your life and give it new branches. To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing--I'm sorry, I would rather not go on.

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?

Vivre, c'est courir des risques tous les jours, Kurt. - Ça dépend dans quel sens on court. (p.47)

Ce n'était pas une vie; on existait, et c'est tout.

As long as the world's been the world, there's been those who live with it and those who refuse to accept it.

Et puis, c'est la vie; elle ne nous prend que ce qu'elle nous a donné. Ni plus ni moins. (p.190)

Quand la femme n'est pas l'ambition suprême de l'homme, quand elle n'est pas la fin de toute initiative en ce monde, la vie ne mériterait ni ses joies ni ses peines

Amin, you're not making sense to me. Things have always been this way, since the beginning of time. Some die so others can be saved. You don't believe in the salvation of others?

The stations of life are not places to inhabit. Rather, they are moments of opportunity that will not repeat themselves.

prends femme, Younes. seul l'amour est capable de nous venger des coups bas de la vie. et souvient toi, si une femme t'aimait aucune étoile ne se mettrait hors de ta porté, aucune divinité ne t'arrivera à la cheville

prends femme, Younes. seul l'amour est capable de nous venger des coups bas de la vie. et souvient toi, si une femme t'aimait aucune étoile ne se mettrait hors de ta portée, aucune divinité ne t'arriverait à la cheville

Life has rules, Omar, and without some of them, humanity would return to the Stone Age.

Who dreams so much, forgets to live

Qui rêve trop oublie de vivre.